Bitler Investments II, LLC v. Marathon Petroleum Co.

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20022
No(s). 12-3722 (7th Cir. Jan 27, 2014)

The Seventh Circuit held that a lower court should have awarded a real estate firm double damages for harm caused by an oil company during its attempt to clean up pollution at gas stations in Michigan the firm leased to it. The firm filed a breach of contract claim and a waste claim for eight sites ...